The sensor also adheres to fish skin and would help monitor the freshness of a cargo. Credit: Salvatore et al, Adv. Func. Materials, 2017 A new generation of microsensors could provide the vital link between food products and the Internet of Things. ETH researchers have developed an ultra-thin temperature sensor that is both biocompatible and biodegradable. Nowadays microsensors are already used in many different applications, such as the detection of poisonous gases. They are also integrated into miniaturised transmitter/receiver systems,…

Running a company is always a difficult thing for the business owners, particularly for those who have limited experience as an entrepreneur. The initial challenge for a business owner is to make his business popular. You need to build brand identity of your business so that it can become long sustainable as well as highly profitable. For these things, you need to plan for running a proper business promotion campaign. For business owners, traditionally business promotional campaign means creating TV…

As many of you know, Square’s latest reader supports Apple Pay for payments made in-store. Today, we’re excited to announce that we are expanding our APIs to enable buyers to pay with Apple Pay on the web as well. In the same way Apple Pay reduces lines and expedites checkout at a physical business, Apple Pay for web improves checkout speed and conversion online since buyers don’t have to enter credit card details and can authenticate the payment with Touch…

Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we’d avoided it. Why? Simply put: the video streaming market is screwed up. While there’s a lot of money spent on video, there are only really about 1,000 customers that do any meaningful level of streaming. This is in large part because it’s technically far too…

Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors. The widely accepted solution to this problem is to use the SSL/TLS protocol to establish an encrypted HTTPS session, over which secure requests can then be sent. Eavesdropping is protected against as only those who have access to the “private key” can legitimately identify themselves to browsers and decrypt encrypted requests. Today, more than half of all traffic on the web uses…

In this Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella listens to a question at the annual Microsoft shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash. Nadella has written an autobiography recounting his efforts to transform the technology company with a focus on empathy and changing its workplace culture. The book, “Hit Refresh,” also reveals some personal challenges, such as his risky move to switch his green card to a temporary work visa in the 1990s so that his wife could…

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. A scrubbing server is a dedicated machine that receives all network traffic destined for an IP address and attempts to filter good traffic from bad. Ideally, the scrubbing server will only forward non-DDoS packets to the Internet…

This was adapted from a post which originally appeared on the Eager blog. Eager has now become the new Cloudflare Apps. QWERTYUIOP — Text of the first email ever sent, 1971 The ARPANET (a precursor to the Internet) was created “to help maintain U.S. technological superiority and guard against unforeseen technological advances by potential adversaries,” in other words, to avert the next Sputnik. Its purpose was to allow scientists to share the products of their work and to make it…

Security researchers say hackers compromised popular computer-cleaning software as part of a sophisticated attack that targeted several high-profile technology companies. The company that sells CCleaner software, Prague-based Avast Software, says the attack affected more than 2 million computers in late August and early September.
San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems and its Talos cybersecurity group discovered and disclosed the breach after hackers targeted Cisco’s own internal domain, as well as domains of Microsoft, Google, Samsung and other tech companies.
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